A Quote by Kenneth Tynan
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
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It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.
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